Perspectives Article
Animal Mobilities and the Founding of New South Wales
Cushing uses the voyage of the First Fleet to illustrate the shift in hierarchies and power relations between humans and animals.
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Perspectives Article
Mallee Residues: A Family Photograph Album from Southern Australia
A visual exploration of the settlement of Australia’s Mallee country by Europeans in the twentieth century.
Arcadia
A Post-Wilderness National Park: Naturecultures of Destruction and Recuperation in the Castlemaine Goldfields
Once a denuded gold mining landscape, now a National Heritage Park, this place is site of emerging environmental histories of post-colonizing, post-mining lands.
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Map: The 1974 flooding of Brisbane
A map of the 1974 flood in Brisbane, Australia.
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Painting: “The St. Petersburg Flood of 1824”
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s painting of Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.
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Painting: Rescue during the 1847 Vienna flood
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
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Prevention or Poisoning? Dilemmas in Urban Rat Control
Effective strategies for rat control based on ecology were invented in Baltimore in the 1940s. The program, however, did not last.
